the only source of true joy and happiness in the life. that understanding penetrated into everything that surrounds us in a monastery and people i suppose feel that fuel the love of christ working. back to girls will divide into groups now so we need about. how many people do you need seven seven people who only choose one two three four five. six seven seven people good the rest will split into two one hundred four go to the from the other to the other girl who's already been to the opera gotten you that way. can you go to the apple garden i'm allergic to any most can go to the farm and me will go to the farm cows. what

comes of along with a group of volunteers men and women of all ages who are here to give something back to god and in this case it means hard work this is the middle of the busy tourist season and there's plenty to do down on the farm. i mean coming into the chicken coop like into the lion's den. thank you so much i. like your careful careful household she doesn't know you are careful about how this came and they you're not on your hand she'll sit on your hand. of stress is a bit stressful for them. but i'm sure in the next week like this. finally they like having their wattle straight and this one's gone. far away from me or try . still. what's that like there's no one line

there's sanctified on vellum and they're very current to see ok and they are you do do do do you do. a good job or through. a long special eggs. see what the fuss is all about. almost one two three. whether it's the saintly atmosphere or something in their feed that's certainly fantastic layers two gigantic seconds here it's. thank you very much wanting to. know that if one two three four five two. one set. only another seven hundred seventy five to go. the volunteers come from

a huge variety of different backgrounds svetlana is a model for moscow but she's not afraid of getting a hamster well it's probably not normal that a girl like me came here instead of going to turkey or enjoying summer in a beach town where but here i am living with mom and waiting someone else's garden is the but there are other people that look at themselves and life in a completely different way and they're not held back really we're all here. for once or very shallow for me is a place of strong spiritual power i've wanted to come here for a long time now there is a possibility i can become a volunteer. here to work for the glory of god and how priests or this place. there are common threads that bind many of the people here together and the group often becomes like a surrogate family mostly these outward next people who came here to find.

brotherhood but of course there is some percentage that come here looking for their way in life and. family i take them for a walk in the woods. try to know what they were accounts for help them find their answer. many people simply come for the island's outstanding natural beauty. edged by rugged shorelines and covered with lush greenery this is truly a tranquil get away but there are some visitors to the alarm who have no families to return to his trip to the island is a welcome break from a difficult life. leaker's ill as new york runs a camp for children from local orphanages who also have learning difficulties for many it's the first time they've spent nights away from the city. because it the first time we came here with disabled children for many years before we used to

take the kids on trips which you get because we understood that nature does children a world of good and that you were decided to try working with children with the help of all arms nature in this place turned out to be totally unique and it's not just the nature here that works. tim you should bear in mind that these children are from a correctional orphanage they are believed to be unable to go to an ordinary school because of some mental disability and in fact this isn't true they are not mentally retarded whatsoever. that these are the first kids they just sit on the shore of lot of work and watch the storms the splashing water and they say thank you for choosing such a beautiful place. it was simply amazing. they feel it they can feel the beauty of the apparently they don't have good feelings in

their lives. hardly any. fifteen year old denise is just one of the youngsters reaping the benefits this is his second time on the island and he says it's changed his life but it's. rocky road that's brought him here. i can't say that i had a good childhood. my dad was an alcoholic my mom was too mom ended up in prison that's how i ended up in an orphanage. everything changes as time goes by. at the moment i have no grudge against anyone my life has become so much better. but i've forgotten my past it's no good remembering it. and he's a humvee meant to have a room when you catch something to. pull it into the sure.

who. ducks. yeah. oh it is. this eerie asli. yes it was. a model that you. did you did you. know i was staying in the volunteers dormitory normally men and women are kept

segregates it's the old get together is allowed especially for a meet and greet session. everyone says where they're from what they've come to and then name. then all you've got to do is remember seeing yeah yeah. you. want to vomit that's ok but it's a good. amount of. cynics saying you know. our lives on the bloody mess of a game out here oh golly you know. you don't like us of homicidal. saying.

when you said you wouldn't be able to do it you know sometimes sometimes it works and. sometimes. work at the mall mistreat takes us all around the only lint along roads that people have traveled here for more than one hundred fifty years. although most of the brothers live in the center of the ministry a small selection choose to isolate themselves from the rest of the community retiring to hermitage is where only men are allowed to enter the grounds. the russian school these places and they're among the holiest centers of the law. each one is way off the beaten track and for some of the volunteers. the journey to gold has been anything but straightforward to. use to be an atheist and believe in nothing but science logic and facts i was looking for truth everywhere. that people write books make films about him. only after twenty years of searching did i become

an orthodox christian off the printing of the coffin of a famous russian saint i discovered that many things have changed because first of all the pain in my leg that i'd suffered for ages had disappeared and last but not least i discovered the ability to read in the old church slavonic even though i'd never learned how to do that. those who. say you have to put the time to understand it fully but living and working here is the only way to really tap into its energy the job is to live but none of the volunteers complain everyone is confident of a spiritual rewards and happy that they're working to reestablish a face that was so pesach usage in the soviet union. is the only branch that has managed to keep the tradition alive that's not changed since the time of the apostles maybe that's why it was preserved the bread of life the jesus christ spoke of the living would that's what russia is experiencing

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months they belong to the new york sang i and the rest look like it's going be a single day every week long slender legs. dramas that can't be ignored to. the stories others refuse to notice and. the faces change the world lights no. longer. so picture of today's leaves a lot longer than a month from around the globe the local. t.v. . the length of the games they come up very hard to take a look at once again the longer the club log cabin that had sex with the perfect

hair looks. the longer. the ghosts leg lifts leg lifts look at. a possible. blonds pride and joy is its transfiguration of the savior cathedral and the sound of its bells st tourists pilgrims and volunteers to worship or to work.

ok let's work for the glory of god. all the skilled workers cuts hammer and replace the volunteers keep supplies coming and clean up the mess it's a massive job the cathedral is seventy six meters high and in some areas they're having to remove more than one hundred twenty years of to it. when they came here last year it was seen approximately the same condition. here it's a long process this is serious work and it's very expensive and requires a high degree of professionalism with what i was surprised when they invited volunteers to work here at best their trusted with work like this. but is it enough or do we need more you know what if i think it's enough. you have to carry it let's

go. to his or heavy. back up or to move i'll take it off. the waste has to go somewhere and again i am responsible for getting it off the scaffolding as quickly as possible we need to take the direct route. the buckets and probably a transport system but it would. for a career for forty years it had no proper roof it wasn't looked after properly and still it enjoyed all these conditions that any means that the cathedral was made really very well it was built with a huge margin for safety that was up by cathedral will stand like this for many

years to come what right now we're trying to save what's been preserved this work should be done and it should be preserved this is truly part of the national heritage. more. so. than. new and then when you. look. at the board. or. a little. leak or into a team of volunteers want their children to leave alone with

a new perspective also the work they do here fosters a spirit of cooperation and they can see the effets developing before their eyes. live it so are you here it's hard to explain everything is so natural this is the way people should live i guess. you know what. we wanted to show these children that there is a place where they can ask for help in case something really bad happens to them they understand completely that bad things will happen to them in the future. they are perfectly aware of what life has in store for them and they know that there will be a lot of drug dealers and alcohol and then to stand how hard it is to resist those things so it's very important for them to know that there is a place where they're always welcome that they should know how to find the way to this place.

around stepping back into a different age and it's easy to see why so many regard it as a sanctuary away from the real world. it seems to have a physical and emotional energy which the monks say is a manifestation of god's grace. it's had such a profound effect on so many that there's even a syndrome named after it's. the compulsion trip turned to the island again and again it's not just adults who experience it. my mom first brought me here started going to school i liked it very much and it's become my third place now is it your favorite place i like it because of its weather because of the monastery so good in here they've got a farm it's nice to leave people are very kind and you know what you want to do

when you grow up to be a monk you want to be a monk why it's just what's in my heart i can't explain why i feel this way. live hit yes i want to live on balaam what he actually wants at this point is not to be a monk but he once he wants a purpose he once something pure something which dignifies him. something which speaks of him as a man as a human being people became knights and soldiers for the same reason. i would certainly encourage him. for the use of stone it's of the brotherhood here was more unusual than most altar

tending university in st petersburg he spent fifteen years living in ministering in the us before retiring to the law he says each monk must end his place in the monastery. spiritual masters of the monastery role just say the word or you're prepared to become a novice and you'll become officially a novice on the part of the brotherhood and spend some time that way and the few years or maybe months later if you still decide to embrace this kind of wife and people see your. as a benefit to the community you'll be transferred and perhaps one are the things to the priest for. the monastic community here has been rebuilt in the last twenty years period during the soviet union when the area served as a mental asylum now there are around a hundred brothers living here permanently but before the russian revolution of nine hundred seventeen there were more than a thousand some of them left

a legacy down the ages. this quiet scene is called the smolensk skeet and it's famous in particular because of one monk efraim he took it upon himself to pray for the souls of dead soldiers and he took his work so seriously that he dug his own grave and every night he would lie in his own coffin. and since then the chapel has been dedicated for the souls of the diet for the faith and for the mother. even if the life of extreme self-sacrifice doesn't appeal it is at least possible to follow in the footsteps of some of these old saints and one of the most popular pilgrimages is to the lomas most famous. for this is the cave where saint alexander of spear lived.

this is the place where alexander of spirit spent hours praying in solitude here he would make a fire is real the stones got warm and gave heat back so he could spend winters here can he lead such a righteous life that he was granted a vision of the holy trinity came to him in the form of three angels. and ordered him to go to the river spear and found a monastery there it is still functional. excursions like these opponents of the joy of. prison archipelago of small islands just waiting to be explored and the landscape always provides some great photos. but many of the loam secrets are only revealed in the churches themselves.

bell ringing here is a real and the company ologists train for years to master the difficult rhythms they need to control up to a dozen bells at once and make it look effortless. it's part of the lambs proud musical tradition displayed in its full glory during the solemn services. dems isn't the best aboard a bus i think we should fill our lives with as many rich and diverse impressions as possible today i'm a developer in two months i'll be working somewhere else in such a way your worldview builds up on different things or you can develop yourself and

create your personality. this earth is like a hotel that we're only here temporarily riches well go to hell or to have on god tests us on the earth if you're a me and phone my laws then you'll go to heaven what if you don't then you'll go to how. we have to move on in those lies here you get some kind of luggage that you will a jury take with here into the city that we have to move on and make plans both families and realizing your family what you've learned here there will. the wool over.

the moving back to real life is easy if a some friends or others. children from lekas all finished camp have reached the end of their stay and it was time to see them off for the docks. but. it's clear to leak air that these are the same kids that arrived on the island just a few weeks ago that at least for a while belong this way to its magic and brought a little joy into their lives. to come make this moment any less painful.

perhaps the monks of old settled here because they felt there was something otherworldly about. that it was always a place with special energy and a from nature or from something more divine. for the pilgrims and volunteers who journey here one visit is rarely enough and many will return to the. place with the power to heal the spirits. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we

were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through and i heard you again yap of screaming grenade. the explosion blew them all round his back toward. and it was all over all. we know that our comrades on our commander leave us no matter how tough it gets we're a team. you're getting was a senior in his military trio. because he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of just comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends.

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